耶稣关心的七件事

出版时间：2008  出版社：校園書房出版社  作者：麥拉倫 (Brian McLaren)  译者：凌琪翔  
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如果耶穌今天在我們身旁，祂最關心是什麼？是你的生活過得自在嗎？或是生命得以自由呢！其實，耶穌關心的是：
1.那常覺罪惡和過犯挾制的你，有沒有面對的勇氣；
2.那被疾病和匱乏挾制的你，該如何得到力量；
3.那籠罩在死亡陰影下的你，可否明白復活的意義；
4.那靈魂生病的你，還願不願意嚐嚐恩典的滋味；
5.那苦難中的你，還能不能看見真正的盼望；
6.那孑然如孤島的你，如何從團體中學習愛的智慧；
7.那飽受腐敗政權和體制壓制的你，是不是得到了真正的自由。
這些耶穌關心的事，都指向一個對象，就是身而為人的你。耶穌關心的事，不是信仰的口號和術語，而是不被轄制的自由生命。
本書作者麥拉倫鼓勵我們，要以寬容的心，以真理為路標，隨著歷世歷代信徒的軌跡，向不同的基督徒團體學習，無論是新教保守派、自由派、靈恩派、默觀及密契主義、天主教和東正教等等；從他們的身上，我們因而看見基督教信仰內涵，是何等的多樣而獨特。而我們所認識的耶穌，將會更為樸實、完整而豐富！
如果我們把焦點放回耶穌和祂的福音上，在愛與反思中前進，朝著耶穌基督的眼光而行。那麼我們就越有機會，走上寬宏的信仰之路。

作者简介

Brian D. McLaren is an author, speaker, pastor, and networker among innovative Christian leaders, thinkers, and activists.
Born in 1956, he graduated from University of Maryland with degrees in English (BA, summa cum laude, 1978, and MA, in 1981). In 2004, he was awarded a Doctor of Divinity Degree (honoris causa) from Carey Theological Seminary in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
From 1978 to 1986, McLaren taught college English, and in 1982, he helped form Cedar Ridge Community Church (crcc.org). He left higher education in 1986 to serve as the church's founding pastor and served in that capacity until 2006.
Brian has been active in networking and mentoring church planters and pastors since the mid 1980's, and has assisted in the development of several new churches. He is a popular conference speaker and a frequent guest lecturer at seminaries and denominational gatherings,nationally and internationally. His public speaking covers a broad range of topics including postmodern thought and culture, Biblical studies, Christian leadership, global mission, evangelism and spiritual formation, worship, inter-religious dialogue, and the relation of faith to ecology, public policy, social justice, and global crises.
His books include:
The Secret Message of Jesus (Thomas Nelson, 2006)
Everything Must Change (Thomas Nelson, 2007)
Finding Our Way Again (Thomas Nelson, 2008)
A New Kind of Christian (Jossey-Bass, 2001)
The Story We Find Ourselves In (Jossey-Bass, 2003)
The Last Word and the Word After That (Jossey-Bass, 2005)
The Church on the Other Side: Doing Ministry in the Postmodern Matrix, (Zondervan, 1998, rev. ed. 2000)
Finding Faith (Zondervan, 1999) - re-published as two books, Finding Faith: A Search for What Makes Sense and Finding Faith: A Search for What is Real (Zondervan, 2007)
More Ready Than You Realize: Evangelism as Dance in the Postmodern Matrix (Zondervan, 2002)
A Generous Orthodoxy (Zondervan, 2004)
His co-authored books include:
A is for Abductive (with Dr. Leonard Sweet, Zondervan, 2002)
Adventures in Missing the Point (with Dr. Anthony Campolo, Zondervan, 2003)
Church in the Emerging Culture (Zondervan, 2003).
His books have been or are being translated into many languages, including Korean, Chinese, French, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Farsi, Portuguese, Indonesian, Tagalog, and Spanish. He has written for or contributed interviews to many periodicals, including Leadership, Sojourners, Worship Leader, and Conversations.
In 2009, "The Justice Project" will be released by Baker Books - a one-of-a-kind collection of essays from emerging leaders around the world, addressing issues of faith and social justice. Brian's next major solo projects will bereleased in March 2010 and March 2011, with HarperCollins. Details TBA.
A musician and songwriter, he has produced several collections of original music, most recently, Songs for a Revolution of Hope. Links to online articles and songs are available at www.brianmclaren.net.
He is actively involved in emergent, a growing generative friendship among missional Christian leaders (www.emergentvillage.com). He serves as a board chair for Sojourners (sojo.net), and is a founding member of Red Letter Christians. He formerly served on the boards of International Teams (www.iteams.org), Mars Hill Graduate School (mhgs.edu), and Off The Map (off-the-map.org).
He has appeared on many radio and TV broadcasts including Larry King Live, Religion and Ethics Newsweekly, and Nightline. His work has also been covered in Time (where he was listed as one of American's 25 most influential evangelicals), Christianity Today, Christian Century, the Washington Post, and many other print media.
Brian is married to Grace, and they live outside of Washington, DC. They have four young adult children. Brian travels extensively, and his personal interests include ecology, fishing, hiking, music, art, and literature.